Brian Langton

{{Short description|Australian politician (1948–2023)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}

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| name = Brian Langton

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| office = Minister for Transport

| premier = Bob Carr

| predecessor = Bruce Baird

| successor = Carl Scully

| term_start = 4 April 1995

| term_end = 1 Dececmber 1997

| office2 = Minister for Tourism

| premier2 = Bob Carr

| predecessor2 = Virginia Chadwick

| successor2 = Bob Debus

| term_start2 = 4 April 1995

| term_end2 = 1 December 1997

| office3 = Minister for Fair Trading

| premier3 = Bob Carr

| term_start3 = 1 December 1997

| term_end3 = 30 April 1998

| predecessor3 = Faye Lo Po'

| successor3 = Jeff Shaw

| office4 = Minister for Emergency Services

| premier4 = Bob Carr

| term_start4 = 1 December 1997

| term_end4 = 30 April 1998

| predecessor4 = Bob Debus

| successor4 = Bob Debus

| assembly5 = New South Wales Legislative

| constituency_AM5 = Kogarah

| term_start5 = 22 October 1983

| term_end5 = 5 March 1999

| predecessor5 = Bill Crabtree

| successor5 = Cherie Burton

| office6 = Mayor of Kogarah

| term_start6 = 1979

| term_end6 = 1980

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| office7 = Alderman of Kogarah

| term_start7 = 1971

| term_end7 = 1983

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1948|1|24}}

| birth_place = Maroubra, New South Wales

| death_date = {{death date and age |2023|10|17|1948|1|24|df=y}}

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| party = Labor

| spouse = {{Marriage|Elizabeth Michalak|6 March 1976}}

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Brian Joseph Langton (24 January 1948 – 17 October 2023) was an Australian Labor Party politician, who served both as mayor of Kogarah in the St George area of Sydney and as the member for Kogarah in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. In 1998 Langton was found by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) to have been involved in corruption, having deceptively lodged travel allowances.{{cite news|first=Linton|last=Besser|title=Disgraced minister takes the helm |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/disgraced-minister-takes-helm/2008/05/18/1211049068445.html|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=19 May 2008|accessdate=19 May 2008}}{{cite web|url=http://www.icac.nsw.gov.au/documents/doc_download/1381-annual-report-to-30-june-1999|title=Annual Report|accessdate=31 July 2014|date=1999|publisher=Independent Commission Against Corruption|page=41|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924032452/http://www.icac.nsw.gov.au/documents/doc_download/1381-annual-report-to-30-june-1999|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}